When it comes to friends, people always know this old saying——A friend in need is a friend indeed. The best friend a man has in the world may
him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has
with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good reputation, may
our faith. A man may
the money he has. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most. A man’s reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are ready to fall on their knees to do us
when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of hatred when
settles its cloud upon our heads. The one
unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never
him, the one that never proves
or distrusted, is his dog.
A man’s dog stands by him in richness and in
, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the cold wind blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his
side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to
; he will lick the wounds and sores that come from encounter with the roughness of the world. He will guard the sleep of his master
he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he
. When wealth and reputation fall to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journeys through the heavens.
If fortune drives the master forth, a deserted person in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of
him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his
. And when the last
of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace, and his body is
in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends
their ways, there by the grave will the
dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even in death.
| 小题1: | | A．turn to | B．submit to | C．turn against | D．look up |
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| 小题2: | | A．brought up | B．come up | C．grown up | D．catch up |
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| 小题3: | | A．restore | B．betray | C．keep | D．strengthen |
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| 小题4: | | A．gain | B．lose | C．earn | D．donate |
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| 小题5: | | A．honor | B．favor | C．credit | D．good |
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| 小题6: | | A．shadow | B．success | C．failure | D．depression |
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| 小题7: | | A．accurately | B．deliberately | C．equally | D．absolutely |
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| 小题8: | | A．appreciates | B．envies | C．admires | D．deserts |
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| 小题9: | | A．ungrateful | B．unfortunate | C．faithful | D．considerate |
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| 小题10: | | A．poverty | B．progress | C．welfare | D．wealth |
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| 小题11: | | A．host’s | B．master’s | C．landlord’s | D．chief’s |
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| 小题12: | | A．serve | B．fetch | C．offer | D．order |
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| 小题13: | | A．only if | B．in case | C．even if | D．as if |
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| 小题14: | | A．flees | B．remains | C．ignores | D．persists |
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| 小题15: | | A．serving | B．protecting | C．spoiling | D．accompanying |
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| 小题16: | | A．enemies | B．masters | C．friends | D．acquaintances |
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| 小题17: | | A．sight | B．scenery | C．scene | D．view |
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| 小题18: | | A．buried | B．hung | C．thrown | D．laid |
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| 小题19: | | A．force | B．lose | C．pursue | D．find |
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| 小题20: | | A．mean | B．general | C．selfish | D．Noble |
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